[wp-forums] New Forum Users and their Profiles

[Sam Bauers]

> I understand that we're blocking new users from their profiles for a
> length
> of time.
>
> * How long?
> * What's the purpose? If it is truly to block spammers, how's it working
> out? (or heck, how does this block spammers anyways?)

It doesn't block spammers, it just denies them a profile page until they
verify their registration.

> There's a fair number of posts in the past month related to new users not
> being able to manage their profiles. The two most common complaints appear
> to be related to not being able to see their topics list or change their
> password. Speaking for myself, not being able to see my topics list would
> drive me away...

I'll give this a look and see if I can find what is up, clearly there is a
lingering problem.

> Is this a temporary or stop-gap change?
> Are there plans to get back to normal at some point?

It's meant to be temporary, hopefully the problems it's causing won't be :)

Sam